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Which universities accept older students?

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Arghya 4

Arghya 4

Can anyone guide me as to which university in China accept international students without any upper age limit? I have passed M.A.(Chinese language) in India and wish to stay in China for 2/3 years, to improve my Chinese. My preferred courses are MTCSOL or Ph.D. in TCSOL or China Studies or Translation or linguistics. I am quite old, 58 to be precise, but am as energetic as any youngster. I have been a mendicant monk all my life and have passed my B.A. in 2015 and M.A. in 2017. Presently, I am doing my M.Phil. (Chinese) in India.

mungouk 210

mungouk 210

This is a good question, and one I'd be interested to hear the answers to.

If you're still an ordained monk, are there any institutions which specifically cater for you and your brethren in China?

For what it's worth, I'm in my 50s and was accepted this year to take a Chinese language course at XJTLU this year, but had to turn it down due to personal circumstances. Obviously that's very different from doing a PhD.

It does seem rather difficult to find information about maximum age limits online, I agree.

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lakesandrivers 29

lakesandrivers 29

Chinese education is still largely traditional. Our lecturer said as such there is no such concept as a local mature student, unlike we are used to in Australia (and I believe other Western countries). Even among full fee-paying foreign students there are arbitrary hard age limits set ranging from 18-25, 18-30, 18-35 and 18-45. This is for the clinical medicine course. I was roundly filtered out from those other medical universities teaching MBBS in English.

I hope things work out for you. In the near future, perhaps career change will be recognized as a human right, too.